Lack of increased immediate early gene expression in rats reinstating cocaine-seeking behavior to discrete sensory cues.

Drug-seeking behavior elicited by drug-associated cues contributes to relapse in addiction; however, whether relapse elicited by drug-associated conditioned reinforcers (CR) versus discriminative stimuli (DS) involves distinct or overlapping neuronal populations is unknown. To address this question,...

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Main Authors: Matthew D Riedy, Kristen A Keefe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3775778?pdf=render